smash

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smashes, smashing, smashed

1) V-ERG If you smash something or if it smashes, it breaks into many pieces, for example when it is hit or dropped.

[V n] Someone smashed a bottle...

[V n] A crowd of youths started smashing windows...

[V into n] Two or three glasses fell off and smashed into pieces.

Syn:

break

2) VERB If you smash through a wall, gate, or door, you get through it by hitting and breaking it.

[V through n] The demonstrators used trucks to smash through embassy gates...

[V way prep/adv] Soldiers smashed their way into his office.

3) V-ERG If something smashes or is smashed against something solid, it moves very fast and with great force against it.

[V prep/adv] The bottle smashed against a wall...

[V n prep] He smashed his fist into Anthony's face.

4) VERB To smash a political group or system means to deliberately destroy it. [INFORMAL]

[V n] The President said he would smash terrorism.

5) N-COUNT A smash is the same as a smash hit.

It is the public who decide if a film is a smash or a flop.

6) N-COUNT You can refer to a car crash as a smash. [INFORMAL]

He was near to death after a car smash.

7) → See also , smashing

Phrasal Verbs:

- smash down

- smash up